Atomism, artefacts, and affordances
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UAM. Departamento de Lingüística, Lenguas Modernas, Lógica y Fª de la Ciencia y Tª de la Literatura y Literatura ComparadaPublisher
Cham: SpringerDate
2018-01-16Citation
10.1007/978-3-319-71958-0_1
Vega Encabo, J. “Atomism, artefacts, and affordances”. Spanish Philosophy of Technology: Contemporary work from the Spanish speaking community. Eds. B. Laspra; J. López Cerezo. Cham: Springer, 2018. 3-15
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978-3-319-71957-3 (print); 978-3-319-71958-0 (online)DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-71958-0_1Funded by
This paper has been written with the support of two research grants funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness on the nature of artefacts and their role in epistemic contexts (FFI2009-12054; FFI2013-45659-R)Project
Gobierno de España. FFI2009-12054; Gobierno de España. FFI2013-45659-REditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71958-0_1Subjects
Ontology of technology; Metaphysics of artefacts; Dimensions of artefacts; Artefactual atomism; Technical action; Transformative environments; Affordances; LiteraturaRights
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AGAbstract
In this chapter, we argue against what we call the atomist assumption that has governed the recent recovery of artefacts in metaphysics. By drawing some parallels between artefacts and concepts, we hold a relational and holistic view on the nature of artefacts. Artefacts acquire their identity conditions only within a constellation of other artefacts and objects. We will also defend that the identity of an artefact is given by the affordances that constrain our agency within a cultural niche or transformative environment. As constitutive elements of these environments, artefacts do not stand isolated; what they are, fixed by what they afford, cannot be specified without referring to other artefacts, (natural) objects, and the (normative) practices that regulate the engagement with them
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